The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-08-13
FRIGHTFUL sCENEs

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vicinity who do nothing but carry of any.
thing they can get their hands on.
| FRIGuTFUL sCENEs r.
In tho ospltals-Appsnrano OF tho Dead
and Suffering. a.
CuATswoRrn, LIS, August 1.-THE
news OF the disaster arrived at Chats.
worth about forty minutes after its occur
renee. The psacsable residents OF the
little town were s1ddsnly awakened BY
an alarm which was rung simultaneously
from all tho alarm boxss In the town.
In Tow moments everybody was on
bis OF her feet, aud people were running
through the streets from all directions, ali
inquifirg where the fire was. When the
actual facta wore learned another alarm
followed, which was soon vigorously re.
echoed by the bella OF all the churches in
the town. The people made a rush for
the road to Piper City.
DR.. Vaughn, Of Chstsworth, was almost
the frat 70 appear at the scene. He WAS
seen by 8 reporter and told briefly what
he saw, as follows: when arrived
found there the greatest. confusion. Hall
itself could not present more horrible
pic.urs-men and women fighting with
death and ready to clutch at a straw to
get saved. One man held his dead wife
and dead little child on his armH while
his own feet were broken and proppsd in
the wreck. l relieved the unfortunate OF
his burden and helped to drag him out
and bring him to q sleeper. Ono Of the
greatest mistortuues was the fact that the
wreck took place almost In q desert. It
| was impossible to accord the wounded
sufficient assistance. There were no an.
Misunderstanding to carry them on.
They were dragged and pushed, and this
sccounts for the great number OF people
who succumbed TO their ipjuties."
Fire Marshal Henry Il. Game, OF Chats
worth, says be was tho first to arrive OF
the scene. ~ had no time to observe
lapythiDgy that trsnspired around me-" he
said. Myself and my entire force were
working Like beavers all tho time, and in
the course OF half an hour We had thirty
three people-killed and woundej-dras.
ged out Of the debris. Four cars we're
standing on the track, and the only thing
| know about them is that carried
wounded men and women there.
PROVIDING FOR THE WOUNDED.
AS faat as the wounded were brought
into Ohstsworth, from the wreck, they
were taken directly to the Town Hall,
which had been turned into temporary
hospital. This Is two-story frame build.
ing, the lower floor being used as q quar-.
ters for the local fire company, while in
the upper hall entertainments are given.
Beds and cots were brought in from neigh.
boring houses, together with necessary
bedding, and the Bulferers cared for by
loving hands. -s:[ "a
The aoora Of the room greatly reaem.
bled the drill room OF the Deaplaines
street police station, in Chicsgo, on the
night OF the Haymarket riot. Torn and
bleeding human beings, in all the different
stages OF suffering, lay around the rooms,
moaning and crying in their agony, while
doctors and nurses we're binding up their
wounds. Bloody clothing, torn aud COW
cred with mud, lsy around the floors in
heaps together with car. cushions, mat
tresses and blankets on which they had
been brought from the acene OF the
wreck. Many patients were under the
influence OF ether or chlorofoim, while
their faces, CHASTITY white, teeth tightly
c.inched, showed the suferings which
they were undergoing, while partially OBJ
liyious to the fact. Blood was everywhere,
on the floors, walls, clothing and hands OF
the wounded, as we'll as OF those who were
caring for them. s l5.5,.
AS the day wore away and the afternoon
shadows lightened into the evening, the
scenes changed somewhat; the wounded
had been dressed, bsndsged and most Of
them rested quietly enough, overcome by
mental and bodily suffering. Resting on
comfortable beds, watched by tender
hearted men and women, the majority OF
whom had never seen the patients until
yesterday, they slept, oblivious to the
slaughter that had taken place. Coal oil
lamps were placed around the halls, tn ir
light carefully shaded, and the scene was
strongly suggestive Of the Interior OF hos
pital on tho field Of battle. E. sc %
A PIrIruL CASE.
In the corner OF the lower hall lay John
q. Steen, resident Of Jersey City, large
and powerful man. = Both OF his legs were
broken and ho had received euch internal
injuries as rendered his recovery doubt.
full. Adam Schoeberser, OF Peoris, lay
near him, semi.conscious 2. and slowly
breathing his life away. One, of his legs
was broken and he was fatally injured in.
ternally. On the upper floor, handsome
woman, about twenty years of Gge, stylish
ly dressed, lay extended on a'couch. She
was Miss Hattie Bfenner, OF Pennington,
Ill, and WAS on her way to Niagara Falls
with several OF her relatives. In the party
was young man named Walters, also Of
Pennington, and to whom che was engaged
to be married. He had been badly in.
tjayed and lay near her on a bed, attended
by couple Of surgeons. While Miss
Brenner was physically unhurt by the
wreck, yet the fright and knowledge OF
her lovers injuries have rendered her in
sane. 5S a ~ Il z, d 3
In the depot at Chatsworth, and in the
unoccupied store used as q morgue, the
scene WAS suggestive OF slaughter house.
i Stretched out on: the floor in different d.
rections were the corpses OF men, women
and children dressed In the clothing in
which they had met their death. In the
empty store, in o room 20 feet wide and
40 feet long, were counted twenty.seven
corpBes at one lime. Their clothing was
torn and disheveled and their BtifIsned
|hands and arms In the msjority Of in
stances crossed over their breasts. The
heads Of the desd were generally mangled
in the most frightlul manner, and were
always covered by some article Of cloth
ing. The face Of young woman who
was lying on the floor OF the depot had
been 80 beaten in by the car timbeIs that
recognition was entirely out Of the ques
ton, and her brains and the fleah OF hei
, face were pulpy mass, in which dabblsd
,, her long red hair. She was not identified
! A man with a heavy dark mustachs, aud
. who was apparently. about IS years 0! age
had been struck in the face by some aub.
stance which had torn away his jaw ant
the side Of his face, leaving tho throat snt
lower part Of his face exposed. s. a "
A ave:year.old boy, with q chubby fact
) and curly hair, looked contented aut
smiling. His legs were not only broken
I but the flesh was SO msngled that 1t pori
4 the appearance Of raw beef. His ches
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